§ MR. THOMAS O'DONNELL (Kerry, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland what is the number, Poor Law valuation, and present rental of the landed estates held in Ireland, either as owners in fee or mortgagees, by the Irish Representative Church Body, the counties in which they are respectively situated, the amount of the mortgage on each estate, the number of such estates sold under the Land Purchase Acts, 1885, 1891, 1896, and 1903 respectively, with the average price paid in each case.
MR. BRYCEI am informed by the Land Commission that the only information asked for in this Question which they are in a position to give, is that relating to sales under the Land Purchase Acts by the Representative Church Body. Under the Ace of 1885, one holding in county Cork was sold in 1887, for £1,000, which amounted to twenty years purchase of the rent; and one holding in county Leitrim was sold in 1894 for £750, being seventeen years purchase. Under the Act of 1896, one holding in county Clare was sold in 1900 for £2,100, being twenty years purchase. Under the Act of 1903, one holding in county Kilkenny was sold in 1905 for £460, being twenty-three years purchase.